Compare depression and catastrophic cognition among young athletes and non-athletes

Ahamdi, Nassour; Kalantari, Fateme; Mokhtarnia, Iraj

doi:10.22091/frs.2025.12129.1031

Compare depression and catastrophic cognition among young athletes and non-athletes

Document Type : Original Article

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¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences and Technology in Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

² PhD student in Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Counselling, Faculty of Humanities, Hazrat-e Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran.

10.22091/frs.2025.12129.1031

Abstract

Sport plays an important role in people's overall health. This study aimed to compare depression and catastrophic cognition between young athletes and non-athletes. The research method is causal-comparative and statistical population in this study, the GHODS city high school students in Tehran the two-stage random sampling method, 797 of them were selected. The research instrument was the Beck Depression Inventory and Catastrophic Cognition Questionnaire _M. The results of the analysis of variance showed that depression in girls was higher than in boys. In connection with sports agents, depression in students who had regular physical activity was significantly lower than among non-athletes. A multivariate analysis of variance was used to compare catastrophic cognition among boys and girls athletes and non-athletes. The results showed that boys in all three factors were significantly lower than girls. So, it seems that sports can be a good strategy for preventing and treating physical and psychological problems.

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